BATON ROUGE -- Legislation that would prohibit scientists in the state from creating human-animal hybrids for experimentation -- believed to be the first such ban proposed in the nation -- has been ...

BIOTECHNOLOGY is becoming dangerously close to raging out of control. Scientists are engaging in ever increasingly macabre experiments that threaten to mutate nature and the human condition at the ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has asked the government to clarify what the authority's role is in regulating experiments involving human–animal hybrids, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hybrids result from crossing two different species, and some can appear quite fascinating. These animals are generally not bred in ...

The haematologist Professor Christopher Baum and his colleagues Dr. Ute Modlich and Sabine Knöß have been awarded the 2009 Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize. The prize was awarded to this research ...

“Colleges with old-fashioned animal labs put students in an awful position that many interpret as a choice between killing or flunking.” The survey results arrive amid an ongoing lawsuit against fatal ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species. Some hybrids occur naturally where habitats overlap, while others result ...